This should be on my trying-really-hard-to-learn list.
I’m only tenacious when I want to be, it seems. Its hard to be tenacious about my eating habits and discplining my children consistently, but not hard to be resolved about exercising or running. It takes willfulness and tenacity to get through a single day with a hair-cutting two-year-old sometimes but then I seem to lose all resolve 
some weeks about keeping my home clean.
I want to have tenacity. Not the stubborn/obstinate kind. But the firm, resolved I-can-do-this attitude. I want to be strong.
But for some reason my knees are weak by 10 am and all good intention I have built up the night before crumbles into a handful of M&Ms and unfiled mail. But other days, I seem to have a purpose in my sight and I know where I’m headed all day long. These days I feel like I have the tenacity to take steps forward in my life.
Resolved living, tenacious motherhood, the courage to stand up to my own temptations – this is what I am only just beginning to learn this year.
Right now, I’m like you…it seems easy to be resolved in my exercise, but not so easy in the eating dept. Food is just too good!
I’m loving these “letter” posts. I hope you are well, Sarah!
I feel resolved to preach well thought and prayed out sermons each week, but not so resolved to invest in my writing craft, when there’s no real deadlines to meet.
I feel more tenacious with my wife than with my children, probably because they seem more forgiving.
Resolved: exercise
Weak: spiritual life
Thank you for asking. It makes me want to do better when I see it written in black and white!
“Resolved living, tenacious motherhood, the courage to stand up to my own temptations – this is what I am only just beginning to learn this year”
loved it. might be a quote to live by this year.
my resolve has run low. everything—EVERYTHING—takes effort right now.